On June 21, Tencent Sports, after Le Havre (Wen/Zhang Nan) had ensured his qualification, the overall preparation atmosphere of the Chinese women's football team became easier. Until today, the Chinese women's football team finally knew their opponents in the knockout match. Zhang Rui said that it's good to wait and see others compete for the right to finish. The opponents in the knockout match are not different from each other now. They just fight against each other. [Focus on Women's World Cup]
It has been two days since the group game ended. The Chinese women's football team had a rest and adjustment on the first day after the game. After the adjustment of the main force on the second day, today is also the first time for all to go to the training ground for training. When evaluating his physical condition, Zhang Rui said that as an old team member, he might recover more slowly, and personally felt that it might take another two days to recover.
From the end of the group match, the atmosphere of the Chinese women's football team was very relaxed. Zhang Rui said that the feeling of having ensured his qualification and waiting for another opponent is totally different from the feeling of waiting for others to decide their fate: "So the whole atmosphere of the team is different now. It's good to see other teams compete for the qualification of the group."
Although at the time of Zhang Rui's interview, the competition between Group E and Group F had not yet taken place, and it was uncertain who would be the opponent of the next game. So the team has made two preparations: "In fact, the development and progress of the whole European women's football team is very fast, so we can't compare it with the level of the previous two years or even a year. In fact, no matter who we play next, after all, we enter the knockout stage. It's the same to see who, it's the same kind of feeling."
In fact, the next competition place is not strange to the Chinese women's football team, even a lucky place. During the Spring Festival in 2016, they trained here for three weeks in winter to prepare for the Olympic qualifiers. As a result, in the big circle of the Olympic preliminaries, we broke through the tight encirclement and won one of the two qualifications, which also brought a surprise. When talking about it, Zhang Rui still remembered that the training place was called Damote, and he was impressed that it was a good coastal city. However, she didn't think it was familiar: "There is no place more familiar than China. In fact, places with many Chinese fans have a more sense of belonging for us. As long as there are them, all cities are the same."